QB battle on at Eastern

Eastern Washington University opens spring football practice this afternoon, with six players expected to compete for the starting quarteback position vacated last fall by record-setting senior Matt Nichols.

You can read the start-of-practice story that ran in Wednesday morning’s S-R here , and you check out what EWU’s sports information office published on spring drills here .  And check back later today for an early look at the first-practice story that will appear in Thursday’s S-R.